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Back To Nature

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Escape the confines of the urban jungle and get Back to Nature.

Forget your worries, escape the hustle and bustle of the city, and reconnect with your wild roots. Join us for Back to Nature, an interactive exhibit featuring new animals such as parrots, mice, iguanas, falcons, frogs, and more! Be among the first to walk through our new Native Pollinator Garden, attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees while learning about the role of native pollinators in our everyday lives.

As we celebrate our 30 year anniversary, we invite you to look back to simpler times on the Sweetwater Refuge and leave your troubles back in the city.

Back to Nature will incorporate new animals, new hands-on exhibits, the opening of our Native Pollinator Garden, and celebrate our 30 year anniversary by looking at the history of Sweetwater Marsh!

  • AGES All ages
  • COST $11 – $16

9 Things You Never Knew About Your Child’s Day at School, Straight From a Teacher

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Have you ever thought…I wonder what happens after I drop my child off at school? It’s almost impossible for a parent to stay with their child for an entire day of school, so in order for parents to better understand their school experiences, one anonymous teacher shared nine things about a typical school day that most parents don’t get…but need to.

One of the 9 things that you probably didn’t expect is they blossom when you drop them off. Your child may be super clingy and shy around you but that doesn’t mean they are at school. Some children transform into completely different people when they aren’t glued to your side. This is important for parents to realize and to never assume that their child takes on the same role at school as they do at home.

Another thing is hurt feelings are not always a bad thing. Children learn a lot at school that doesn’t have anything to do with writing or math.  Learning social skills and how to deal with them is a very big part of school. Children, no matter how adorable they appear, can be mean and hurtful – usually not meaning to be. It is tremendously important that they learn how to react to these feelings and equally as important – recovering from them appropriately.

To see the rest of the 9 things that you really need to know at popsugar.com….CLICK HERE!

Innovators LAB

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The Innovators LAB is a collaborative makerspace experiment that creates open-ended design challenges to nurture creativity, problem solving, skill building and learning. Topics change throughout the year and have included buoyancy, electricity and balance. The Innovators LAB targets families with children ages 7-13 and provides opportunities to experiment with a variety of ideas, materials and hands-on techniques.

Ages 7+ / $6 – $12

Working Moms Feel Guilty All the Time

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Working Moms Feel Guilty All the Time Because of Their Childhoods, Says Science

When I grew up, ya know back in 1980’s – the olden days, moms were the ones who stayed home with the kids and handled all of the domestic chores while dad went to work. There was not a time when I came home from school and my mom was not there. That’s just the way it was. As I grew up that began to be less common with my age group. Today finding a mom who stays home with the kids is far and few in between and there are a variety of reasons for that, some personal preference and economic as well – but that’s a different story. The issue today is that a lot of moms feel guilty not being home with their children. Recent studies show guilt many working moms feel is actually brought on by their own childhood experiences.

Research was conducted at Queen Mary University in London. Researchers conducted 148 interviews with 78 different male and female employees from multiple different accounting and legal firms.  Dr. Iona Lupu, co-author of the study said “We are not blank slates when we join the workforce. Many of our attitudes [about work and family] are already deeply ingrained from childhood.” That makes perfect sense. I clearly remember my mother telling my sister and I how she loved her job, but felt that is was her responsibility to stay home with us kids. But like I said earlier, it was much different back when I grew up – especially economically. One female participant in the study stated “I do remember my mother always regretting she didn’t have a job outside the home and that was something that influenced me and all my sisters…. She’d encourage us to find a career where we could work. She was quite academic herself, more educated than my father, but because of the nature of families and young children, she’d had to become this stay-at-home parent.”

The study does not completely get rid of the guilt some working moms feel, but it does provide some great insight as to where those feelings come from. Childhoods have a major impact on our feelings toward our careers -more than we realize.  The “traditional” role of moms has changed dramatically since we were kids and we can’t erase those feelings of guilt, studies like these can help us understand and be more accepting of what motherhood should be.

To read the full article from Cafe Moms….CLICK HERE! 

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